Re: text to cmd line

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"Which gets me to a very wonderful program I wrote at that time, which allow
one to take the defined text and incorporate it into a search and replace
routine. This program prompts you to choose whether the command should be
CH (change), CV (change verify), or CI (change invisible). I think CI is
nearly useless today with the high speed computers, but back then, when
everyone was working on the old 088s then the ultra-superspeed ATs (288, I
think) it was fun to watch the computer go through the changes in a long
file. In those days we couldn't even comprehend how fast the 386s would be."

I'd like to add my two-bits to this: when you say that CI is now obsolete, I
must disagree, but not for the same reason you gave. I hate being prompted.
I also don't enjoy watching the screen flicker as a routine churns. My
attitude, when I put a command on the command line in Xywrite - and one of
the reasons I love Xywrite, especially previous to XY4 - is "JUST DO IT - I
WOULDN'T HAVE SAID IT IF I DIDN'T MEAN IT!!" The nice thing about CI vs. CV
is it just does it, without second guessing me. If I really need CV, I'll
specifically use it. I don't remember whether CH prompts or not, I don't
think I've ever used it.

Now I have to figure out how to change the defaults in my new XY4 so it
stops the damned prompting it keeps doing when I tell it to AB.

Charles